Nonorthodox Healing Systems and Their Knowledge Claims  

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Clouser, K. Danner ; Hufford, David J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 18 no. 2 (Apr. 1993), page 101-106.
Topik: Scientific Medicine

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One would have thought that the more “scientific” and “high tech” medicine became, the more that nonorthodox healing systems would fade into the background. Indeed the conventional view of nonorthodox health belief and practice is that at best it is marginal, used only by folks who are poor, uneducated, or socially isolated, and perpetrated by practitioners who are either fraudulent or simply ignorant of the great, though relatively recent, accomplishments of “scientific medicine”. Thus the conventional view of nonorthodox healing systems is that they are perpetuated by folks who are socially, culturally, or psychologically marginal. These people are the “miracle seekers and the uninformed”, “the restless ones”, and “the straw-graspers” of Beatrix Cobb’s often cited article “Why Do People Detour to Quacks?” (1958). (As recently as 1987, for example, an article on the use of nonorthodox cancer treatments [Filicetti, 1987] quoted at length a case from Helene Brown’s “Cancer Quackery: What Can You Do About It?” [1975] that Brown had quoted from Cobb.) This conventional view of nonorthodox medical utilization led to many predictions about the inevitable demise of healing traditions outside scientific medicine, as scientific medicine became more available and public education allowed more and more Americans to understand medicine and science in general.

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